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Hear how research unfolds at sea. Playing female whale calls into the water, researcher Susan Parks suddenly finds herself the center of attention of a group of male North Atlantic Right Whales. Will she be able to gather crucial data before a breaching whale crashes down on her boat?
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read moreDuration: 5:45Published: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:27:58 +0000
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Coral Sea, Duration 22 seconds
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 265 seconds
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Hobro havn, Jylland, Danmark
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Diskobugten, Grønland
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Right Whale and Sperm Up to 60 Feet Finners Up to 110 Feet. 1-Greenland Right Whale, Balaena Mysticeptus, up to 60 feet in length, generally found near Arctic ice. The smaller whalebone whale of the Atlantic and Southern oceans is somewhat similar in shape; it runs to 50 feet; shows tail as it dives; has no fin on back. It is called the Nordcapper or Biscayensis and Australis. 2- The Sperm or Cachalot,; Physeter Macrocephalus. A toothed whale 50 to 60 feet; shows tail when it dives; sometimes breaches,; i.e. leaps several times in succession as it travels; blast low and projected forward. 3- Seihvale, Balaenoptera Borealis, 40 to 50 feet; blast about 10 feet; does not usually lift tail out of water before final dive; has fin on back, is therefore a "finner.; 4- Fin whale, Balaenoptera Musculus, up to 75 feet. The blue whale Balaenoptera musculus Balaenoptera Sibbaldii is similar, with smaller fin on back; both make blasts about 18 feet. The blue whale Balaenoptera musculus in Southern seas has been killed up to 110 feet.
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Rhachianectes glaneus, Cope. California Gray whale Rhachianectes glaucus.. Length 41 feet. (After Scammon.)
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Large Hump-Back [sic] Whale, 83 Feet Long.
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California Gray whale Rhachianectes glaucus, Rhachianectes glaucus Cope.
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Megaptera versabilis, Cope. Pacific Humpback Whale.. Length, 48 feet. (After Scammon)
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Cape May Point State Park
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Puerto Adolfo Lópes Mateos
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Farallones Marine Sanctuary
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Alaska
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Writer Karen Romano Young takes an icebreaker to Barrow, Alaska, to join in the festival of Naluqatak and learn about the intimate relationship between the Inupiat Eskimos and the bowhead whale. Listen as she tells Ari Daniel Shapiro how the whole community turns out for whale hunt, how the bowhead nourishes the Inupiat, both physically and spiritually—and how the hunt is proving to be an unexpected gift to scientists.
read moreDuration: 5:14Published: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:36:55 +0000
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Coral Sea, Duration 18 seconds
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 21 seconds
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Diskobugten, Grønland
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Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), caught in an Inuit subsistence whale hunt in Igloolik, Nunavut, in 2002From
Wikimedia Commons
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Skeleton of Right Whale Showing Comparative Size of Man. A--Bones which represent legs.
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Baleneptere vorqual. Balaenoptera vorqual
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California Gray whale Rhachianectes glaucus, or Devil-Fish. Rhachianectes glaucus, Cope.
